June 30, 2014

Marybeth was our hostess this month with the perfect theme for summertime, weddings and anniversaries. The kits were full of the most gorgeous shimmery papers and die cuts. I have so much left over to play with once I see what the rest of the team has done. Absolutely perfect colours for the themes.

June 26, 2014

My kids do not do teacher gifts anymore. In University it would be considered a bribe in high school it isn't really done, at least not as a senior. I wish that all the awesome school themed stamps and designs were available when my kids were small and we were doing teacher gifts for all the teachers.

My daughter, however, did a two credit co-op this past semester in a JK/SK class as she wants to follow in my footsteps and be a teacher. Last week on her last day, "Miss Brooklyn" came home with 25 handmade cards from her students. She will never throw them away, I know that. Yesterday was the SK graduation so she went back for the festivities and wanted to take a gift for the teachers she worked with as well as the SERT and the EA. We had planned on making sets of thank you card for each, but Brooklyn decided that she would like to give each of them some of my cards (since I have so many of them). So she selected an assortment of birthday, thank you, sympathy, all occasion and get well cards. We packaged them up along with envelopes in glassine bags, tied them with bakers twine and created thank you tags for the fronts.

June 25, 2014

However, part of my New Years Resolution was to try new things to reach outside of my comfort zone.

When I saw Laura Bassen`s awesome video about colouring embossing paste posted on the Simon Says blog at the end of May I filed it as something I must try. I love to learn new techniques from Laura. As soon as I saw Donna Mikasa`s card and Guest Design at Time Out Challenges I knew that now was the time to try this. I have a lot of Distress Inks, but not a lot of the newer colours. So shopping for ink was necessary, the closest store that sells Distress Ink is in Toronto. So last Friday evening my daughter and I headed into the city. An hour and 15 to get there, made it by there by 8:00 and although I wasn`t able to get the colours I was looking for in large pads this is what I got:

A shopping problem? Maybe.

Here is Donna's gorgeous card!

So I gave the technique a try, not perfect by any means, but really fun and I love the texture. I topped it off by creating a dimensional sentiment, also not perfect, and some die cut sequins. I am also submitting this to the Simon Says Wednesday Challenge - Anything Goes!

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I have been married to my high school sweetheart for 27 years. I am a mom to two incredible young adults that make me so proud every day. Paper crafting has always been a part of my life. I blog because I love to share and I hope you find a bit of inspiration while you stop by to visit!